Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

When your prayers aren’t answered immediately, sometimes God has a different—or better—plan.

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

What you receive is directly connected to what you believe

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.