To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.