If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

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."

You are beaten to earth? Well well what's that? Come up with a smiling face it's nothing against you to fall down flat but to lie there - that's disgrace.

Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.

I look at movies, unfortunately, and I still see a lot of movies [lacking diversity].

I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take no for an answer.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

Change is good, and ultimately, creating a new path at this point in my life is energizing, creative, and rejuvenating.