Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

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."

Marriage is nothing but a commitment to care and share.

She stopped then and turned her face toward him and the hateful wind.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.