Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

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."

Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born.

Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!

Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss

I wish I wasn't eating Cheetos every night. Those are my favorite - I'm addicted to them!

London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

Love and prayer are intimately related.

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.