Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

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."

The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

One thing will not change - we will be going out to win.

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.