The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.

Listen to the Lord's appeal:...Come, then, return to me and learn to know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds.

For he who touches the Body of Christ unworthily receives his damnation.

I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don't let someone because you're afraid or you'll lose them forever.

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.

We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

If you could do better, should you?

Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.