I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice �out there� calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice �in here� calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.

To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.