Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

You can just enjoy music without understanding it, muusic is a universal language.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.

I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

When your heart is open and soft, it isn't actually vulnerable: it can withstand anything.

Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.