Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Fighting to fit in. Confidence is paper thin.

I wear the writer pants in the family.

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

There's always sacrifices. My family don't generally say that they're related to me - my sister doesn't say she's my sister - because they don' t want to be judged or lauded based on who I am.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

Does this feel warmer or colder?

How much would you pay...for the Universe?

I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.