“No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.”

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

Love knows nothing of order.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.

No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don’t really care where it’s seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven’t done before.

Careful with this one. She had dethroned kings.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

You shouldn’t feel unsafe walking to school. It’s where you should feel safe. Our parents should feel their children are going to be taken care of, looked after.

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.

If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.