"Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way."

"Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them."

"Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked."

"If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave."

"Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday."

"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."

"There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be."

"The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving."

"Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God."

"You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people."

"Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything."

"To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful."

"Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book."

"A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults."

"Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed."

"When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!"

"We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble."

"Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery."

"Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?"

"A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy."

"For a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you."

"Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right."

"Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts."

"Science is not wisdom."

"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."

"The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society."

"The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law."

"Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love."

"There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!"

"Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty."

"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."

"A woman never tells you why she loves; she just "tells "you how she loves."

"Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man."

"Man is incurably curious."

"All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion."

"Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love."

"Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others."

"It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced."

"Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad."

"We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation."

"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."

"...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-"

"Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action."

"The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal."

"When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat."

"The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant."

"You are infinitely precious because you are loved by God."

"Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left."

"What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil."

"When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself."