His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for not being perfect, make amends, and get on with life.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.

The poor you will always have with you, ' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way

Money! If you do not have, then you listen to me, I'm saying something.

Hate is like zero because true love is not divisible by hate.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

The future seems to be in good hands, it's the past I'm worried about.

The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.

Eva [Braun] loved [Adolf] Hitler and he was the only man in her life. She flirted and danced with other men but never would she have done more than that.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.