I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.
Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
The sign of the cross is the most terrible weapon against the devil. Thus the Church wishes not only that we have it continually in front of our minds to recall to us just what our souls are worth and what they cost Jesus Christ, but also that we should make it at every juncture ourselves: when we go to bed, when we awaken during the night, when we get up, when we begin any action, and, above all, when we are tempted.
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.
When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.
You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.