Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.