Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

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.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

I leaned back and glimpsed the stars, the same stories again but written in the sky.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.

Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

Well, I would say that Shake It Up was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.