I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.

Fun and killing ain’t synonyms to regular folks, Zeus.”.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world.

Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.

The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.