To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

I love Taco Bell. Whenever I go there I could get anything on the menu and be totally happy.

Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss this opportunity

For years I wouldn't listen to black metal from anywhere but Norway.

Demi is my best friend in the whole wide world, the media needs to back off and let the girl relax.

I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more...

Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and he will come forth victorious.

Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer

We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.