Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows the world to put its problems on hold.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security.

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.