There are many who want me to tell them of secret ways of becoming perfect and I can only tell them that the sole secret is a hearty love of God, and the only way of attaining that love is by loving. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.

A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.