As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

Poets are born, not paid.

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself.

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

Give people plenty of opportunity to enjoy themselves by emphasizing ways that let people participate in the experience.