The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way.

The lady's not for turning.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

Viacoms results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!