We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old.

What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course.

What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.

People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.

I would never get married while my father is still alive because I wouldn't want him to walk me down the aisle.

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

The first world we find ourselves in is a family that is not of our choosing.

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

Pain is the biggest power of love.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.