“Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.”

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

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.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.