A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

I came, I saw, God conquered.

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

I make war on the living, not the dead.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

Those who believe in ghosts always see them.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.

No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win.

Excellence is the jet engine, that pushes you faster and higher to success.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .

I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world...