“It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.”

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

After you die, you wear what you are.

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

One always goes on as one begins.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.

It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Always think, ‘what’s the worst that can happen’ and have some kind of strategy to deal with it.

I don’t know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.