By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.

God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.

while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.

Growing up loving the Bible made me apt to love other books. I don't love them in the same way I love the Bible, but a lesser love came easily. The splendor of sunlight does not take away

For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.

Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer's pilgrims want a place of man's true home: paradise

Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation.

Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.

May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.

If you don't stay relevant you will be relegated

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing, ’ she muttered.

There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

Hee that lives well is learned enough.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

I'm very authentic, I think, and what I mean by that is whatever roles that I do take on, I'm really passionate about it.

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.