The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, but by taking it slowly.

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved.

You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.

But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though it’s nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in.

Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.

One is the goals of 9/11 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the Soviets had done before them.

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.