The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

Until you know that life is interesting and find it so you haven't found your soul.

Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns...and at last they say freedom of speech...

As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

You're always going to make mistakes. That's life. You just want to grow from them and try to make as few as possible. That's why you do reach out and ask people for help, where needed.

I don't like the word "brand." When I see people creating a brand, it feels disingenuous.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

Intolerance is a beautiful thing...There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk.