For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.]

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle….

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.

The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.