Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.

Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.

If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.

That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

For the entire Desiderata go to Inspirational Poems page

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

I don't really worry about a crowd liking me.