[Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.

I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.

To the extent that we sow love where there is hate and light where there is darkness, each in his or her own walk in life, we can heal, enlighten, and unify.

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

Worst thing about Al Smith dinner : it was another reminder of how far we are from the amity between opposing sides that is needed for effective governance.

I've never met anyone who has changed his mind or deepened his faith because he has been confronted with such angry condemnations.

Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage.

No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate.

God will fulfill your wishes.

... scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.

For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened

Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs.

It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.

My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do