All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

It will be a lesson in hope.

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.

The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll.

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.

Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency.

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.