It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

The whole of Christianity is comprised in three things--to believe, to love, and to obey Jesus. These are things, however, which we must be learning all our life.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

I still would say generally that more people have access [to] and take advantage of more diversity of opinion than was once .