Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.

If you want peace, work for justice.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

HeDestiny is very jealous FOR TRUE LOVE

Achilles absent was Achilles still.

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.

No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

They [international terrorists] are after us because we're a Christian nation.