“It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.”

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

If you understood him, it would not be God.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.

Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!

If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination.

My notebook couldn’t carry the burden of all those words which my heart once felt.

I’m in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.