Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy.

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.

Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.

The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives.

The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.

If he makes humanity God and yet cries out against God's inhumanity, it is clear who has really been accused.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

There is love and then there is fluff. Nothing else.

Our story begins at home, but it doesn’t have to end there.

Never give up no matter how tough the road seems, keep going and visualize yourself in the realm of what you are going to achieve.

Don't make much ado about nothing.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.