Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

Utilising the Power of Your Heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

There is no democracy without journalism.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.