Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

She can't help it, ' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

Manage your life as you manage your money.

God has given us all our unique story. It's not one that flows easily or pretty, but the story is ours! Find it and treasure it...

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'

When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring.