My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.

My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford.

Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.

Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough, " see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.

We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.

Only one party sticks out in my mind as a kid. It was the best party ever. I was 5 years old, and my mom dressed me up in a church dress and stockings to go to the party and park.