When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

Good books makes good life.Great books makes great life.

Breezy daysdeserve the unionof two old friends.

In wartime, everyone loves a soldier, and a wounded hero even more so.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

When the rock is hard we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough we get tougher than the job.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

You're insane, but you're my kind of man.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.