The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ.

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.

He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.

He who whets his steel, whets his courage

There is a need to find and sing our own song to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then you'll be happy.

There's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

At last." He breathed into her, finding her lips. "You found me," she whispered. "Always.

Luckily the script [of X-files episode] was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.