Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

What do you call falling when the world is standing upside down?

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in the country.

That was the aura of Cheers: It was special. It was more than TV; you could get people to guest on the show you couldn't normally get.

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/…No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you.