There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

Jesus, I am sorry.

Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.

Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.

The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives.

The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.

As life begins with a tiny little thing, success begins with tiny little steps forward.

Life's pressure is equal to your resistance.

Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!

For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

A lot of companies are still using social as the world’s shortest press release.

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice hockey player.

For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.