“The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.”

“If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!”

“God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.”

“I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.”

“Once you finally decided to stand for great things in your life, it becomes crystal clear to all of the bad things you refuse to sit down for any longer.”

“Life is not just about the good things or not just about the bad things. It is both. It all depends where you focus your attention.”