At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

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.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

I can tell you without question that there is one key element that makes the difference between those who succeed and those who do not. That element is action.

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'