Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

Be firm with your decisions.

The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.

Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as we go down the road and look at other threats.

Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.

I learned how to play hard to get (push and pull) from my teacher Kwon Jiyong.

I listen to a lot of twerk anthems.

I'm not running for canonisation.