Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

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."

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.

My Paintings are Battles.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

Either all days are holy or none are.