Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.

Think people really want to know what's out there?""Probably not. People don't know what they want, Evelyn, or life wouldn't suck

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.

I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.