Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable.

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, but by taking it slowly.

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

It’s tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.

Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it's there.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.