Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office

Give out what you most want to come back.

Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren’t to be destroyed.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor.

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.