We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

Investing is a business, investment is a project and investor is a promoter.

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Battles decide everything.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

I never had a desire to hurt anybody.

I got caught kissing my dad's ex-girlfriend - at his wedding!

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

She was really strong around me. Having me at 16 had to have been a big responsibility. My mom gave up everything for me, had three jobs, supported me, sacrificed her life for me.

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.