The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

I think actions speak louder than words. You can do all the hyping you want. It doesn't mean anything.

I have money, but my most important capital is the trust of the people.

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

In the beginngless beginning there was the Meaning

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.

Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.

No expert can predict the heavyweight division. Every punch can make the decision.