Forgiveness does not replace justice.

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.

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?

People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

We must fight for what we want or it will be taken from us.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.