Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

How stubborn life is, It clings like silver in our souls.

How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

I think that Jerry Bruckheimer just kind of has his finger on the pulse of what America wants.

The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself.

Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.