We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.

You look about as trapped as a piglet at a baby back ribs cookoff.

Your butt in a pew does not true worship make.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

The hardest part is keeping yourself even keel across the board. You have to keep a balance until you get to Sunday and understand what goes with the week.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".