If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

I'd like that translated, if I may.

Why do you think you deserve happily ever after? You were offered it before and tossed it away.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

But when you cared about someone, you made sacrifices. You put their happiness first.

Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain.

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation.

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.