“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”

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.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

The human heart is always drawn by love.

Love does not stay idle.

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

I try to remind myself that all of this could be over tomorrow, because I could wake up and magically be 35 feet tall and not be able to act in movies anymore.

I fear I am and will always be the river emptying into your sea.

I painted the walls of my room with all my secret tears, filling the empty space with false hopes and fears.

Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.

I’m just going to have to grow old, because I’m too terrified to have anything done.