Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

The Lord delights in every little step you take.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.