Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Good becomes perfect, but perfect is an illusion. And illusions are like all spells—temporary and soon broken. And when that happens, feelings change.

There are no old people nowadays they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead.

I've learned... that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

In life in general, you're never bulletproof, about the time you start thinking that, I always tell people, the karma train will come run you over.

Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.

I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.