“A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.”

Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.

Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.

It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.

It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’

I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Adversity defines true character.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.

Money will not purchase character or good government.