God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

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.

He wanted to claim her, to possess her and be possessed, to sink into her soul until neither of them could tell their own being from the other.

I do not 'get' ideas ideas get me.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

You've got to be fine with who you are.

I think my gift expressed itself in every way possible. When I was a little child, my mother said I used to draw on the walls.

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.