Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other.

Success is more like a character than financial status

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

Pray patiently.Pray purposefully.Pray painstakingly.Pray perfectly.

Show your compassion to people in their life time

I can take just about anyone and make them physically strong.

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

Wagers and pacts are made with angels - or with devils.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.