Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbors, because in them we serve Jesus.

The gifts of grace increase as the sorrows increase.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.

As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.

Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

Well, to put it delicately, she has the power to suck out people's brains.

Don’t get high off praises, and don’t get too low on critiques.

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.

'The Night Of.' I pray there will be more.

There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.