A child who grows up too closely aligned with adults assumes knowledge of a life she hasn’t yet experienced.

From the moment of your birth, you have a calling

Let us worry about beauty first, and truth will take care of itself.

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

North Korea has nukes. Japan has a problem with that. I mean, they have a big problem with that. Maybe they would in fact be better off if they defend themselves from North Korea.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do.'

Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy