“Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

My entire life I’ve waited for a man to teach the world how to treat me and if he’d step in and convince them all.

We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.

I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

I can sell anything. I’m very convincing.