One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

The distance between success and your dreams is hard work.

If your life is like a tragedy it is because you have been neglecting something — most likely yourself.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying.

I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more...

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

Every election is important and each election says it's more important than the last.