Academic theology is false.

Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

Principles are what people have instead of God.

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

Scientists are in the strange position of being confronted daily by the indisputable fact of their own consciousness, yet with no way of explaining it.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

I helped to restore America's leadership.

People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy. (on Ronaldinho)

I’ve already lived through the worst time of my life. So I know that whatever happens to me from now on, nothing will ever be as bad as it was back then. That makes me happy.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.