The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart.

Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.

I pray because I can't help myself.

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?