Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.