We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

Damnation is eternal. That’s the whole point. Otherwise, what good would it do you?

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

I love both real and fake jewelry. My kids make me necklaces, and I wear those, too. Every day, I wear my gold wedding band and the Cartier watch my husband gave me.

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

Get your product in front of actual, living, breathing strangers. Your college roommate's approval does not mean there's market demand.

My career is inexplicable to me. So far I've just been not getting fired despite being myself.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.