Our Quotes

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

I make our family traditions a priority.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

When I was praying there was a Presence - I saw nothing and yet Our Lord Crucified seemed present for a few instants.

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us.

Surround our children with a message of honor

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

We're talking about the chemical lobotomy. We're talking about the chemical straightjacketing of our children.

Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.

That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.

Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.

It’s hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end.

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

We love even when our love is not requited.

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

I think it's time we take a step back and recognize that while we are hurting our animals, we are hurting each other, and we are hurting our planet.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.

Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

Our society has become an employee society.

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find fulfillment. We don't need to pursue them all.

I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

What every traveler confronts sooner or later is that the way we spend each day of our travel...is the way we spend our lives.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."

God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives.

We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father.

Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.