Man is incurably curious.

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."

I think he could handle being used. It would be good for him. He's having trouble sleeping.

Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

The best mask for demoralization is daring.

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.

If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.