Our Quotes

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

When we understand our relationship to God, we also understand our relationship to one another.

The Lord's hand in in our lives; if we will but feel for it, in the darkness, we can grasp it and be lifted thereby.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives.

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.

Global education is something that is important for me. Because I believe that our future is going to be built by our young generation.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

Your family, even though you love them, they can get on your nerves. You spend so much time together.

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

I ran [for presidency] because I knew what trouble our country was in.

Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament

Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.

We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.

We are the arbiters of our destiny.

Our relationship with God flows out of our love for God.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?