A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

All I am I owe to my mother.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

You know which title I like best? I like to be called mother.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.

You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.

I believe every single woman could accomplish what I've accomplished.