Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.

Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.

Be living witnesses of the greatness and beauty of Christianity.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.

The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.

I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

I think water’s, like, a really important thing.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.