The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.

If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved.

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works

I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary

The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe - I can't hear you.

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.