The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Instantly, the pair fell to groping one other as if each had puff the magic dragon at a rock concert in Woodstock.

When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

My stories are never quite good enough

One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.