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

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

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.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

You get the results your belief dictates

Setting boundaries isn't an alternative to loving your child. It is a means of loving her.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

My mom called me up and said you almost had that one, moms are the greatest, you can't do wrong by your Mom. She blames it on everybody else but me.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

Did you come out of the womb a dickhead or develop that jockstrap personality on your own? (Hunter)

A jump lead walks into a bar. The barman says "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."