A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.

It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.

She loved you in the morning because the day was new.