We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

Be careful your footsteps do not stumble by the stumbling stone.

I wasn't crying about mothers, " he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.

I'm reminded everyday that I was born to do great things, I believe that and when it's my time I shall.

Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.