In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others the best way to gather is to scatter.

Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain.

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.