Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

It was God who gave a man's rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back.

Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you will have within you to give.