As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.

Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Silence does good to the soul.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

When one loves, one does not calculate.

Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.