The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.

I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.

I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere.

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

I was the worst, most sickly kid of all - 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.

But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.

Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.