When one must, one can.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

It is better to leave a child well instructed than to hand over the whole world in the hands of a fool

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Proclaiming the gospel is not an activity in which we periodically and temporarily engage.

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used to get angry at the thought that I did not know German or American or Swedish women.