Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

One of the greatest keys to happiness is learning how to accept reality while stretching forth to create a new one.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty; but the idea of war itself.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.

Once you’re comfortable by yourself you learn to be more at ease with others.

I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.