Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.