As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

The time we are living in is a significant time

The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.

Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in other people. Share the truth and be ready for the miracle to unfold

All the nations of the earth must learn to live together in peace. Why be prejudiced against anyone because of their race, nationality, or creed? When there's so many real reasons to hate others.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

There is never any peace for those who resist God.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

Read, read read. Read everything.