To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

Every man has his fault and honesty is his.

Accept me for what I am, completely unacceptable.

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

It's annoying when people confuse you with the character.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.

If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

Ah me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is!