The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one.

The books you read in childhood shape the person you become.

Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.

If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind...for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour.

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.