Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!

Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface