Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?

Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it.

You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

What we prepare for is what we shall get

Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.