“Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.”

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

God is even kinder than you think.

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

Christ moves along the pots and pans.

For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.

I am eating more. I think you do eat more when you’re working out. And you want to eat healthily, so it’s good all round.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.

I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don’t think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

Every now and then you have like a realization moment where you get goosebumps and think, “I am literally the luckiest person in the world.