God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

Let us go beyond the boundaries of right and wrong. Let us vanish in the beauty of love.

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.

For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.