Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which we live.

If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.

Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.

He will never let the trial surpass the strength He gives you, and at the very moment you think yourself overwhelmed by sorrow, He will lift you up and give you peace.

I love my solitude, and I would love it still more if I had more of it.

Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate us. For we know that no one is perfect in this life, and we must put up with the defects of others as they put up with ours.

If humility is always desirable, generous humility is still more so.