Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

I'm very opinionated.

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

I find it safer to pursue the powerful, the ugly, the unpleasant.

You can mess with a lot of things, but you can't mess with kids on Christmas.

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

Policy sits above conscience.