When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

Let the mechanics of desire bring your fulfilment without interference.the more you interfere, the less likely you will get what you want.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

How shall we live in order to be happy?" Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself—and then to follow where your answer leads you—will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

I could live here forever. Maybe even become real New Yorker someday.

And every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

Your dream can be realized right in the present moment. You live your life in such a way that every step in the right direction and every breath along the way becomes the realization of your dream. Your dream does not take you away from the present; on the contrary, your dream becomes reality in the present moment.

When desire stops, there is no more fear. We are then truly free, peaceful, and happy.

God is asking for that abandonment of man to Himself which says, "We pour all at Thy feet, and if Thou shouldst crown us, we would rejoice, but only that a crown was ours to cast at the feet of Christ." When men reach that point, greed has gone out of their service.

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.