Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.

Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

We become the books we read.

Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

To care for others is called humanity.

AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

A high quality life starts with a high quality you!

It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.