What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?

We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.

Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.

It's 'Heaven Begun', for the grateful on earth.

The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor.

Eight or nine out of ten mothers in our society today believe that they have accomplished their duty if their daughters, once married, are not sent home in divorce. -Daughters in Boxes

The good thing about being old is not being young.

I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.