In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

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."

Your faith will abandon you in blink of an eye.

Mmm, freshly baked cookies. Even better, the rich, buttery scent had conquered the usual mothball odor.

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.

I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.

Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.