The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.

Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

Always keep open the window of your mind to let in love.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

My generation of Canadians grew up believing that if we were very good or very smart or both we would some day graduate from Canada.

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.

I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real.

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

If a bill to ban handguns came to the house floor, I would vote for it.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?