Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

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.

Our actions are highly magnetic to our thoughts.

I am thankful for all the blessings and talents I have been given, but most of all I am thankful for my loving and supportive family.

I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. "Cars" is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

Meditation is very important to me. I feel off-balance when I skip a day.

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.