If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.

Grace flows through wounds.

Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.

When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.

In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.

For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman.

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

God's plan remains God's plan despite our sin.

Lord Henry smiled. "He gives you good advice, I suppose. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

So, what should I do right now?Stop crying, open your heart, and pray.

Be who you are. Do what you can. Embrace the journey.

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

Don't let something you don't fully understand unravel everything you do know.

The film business has so many twists and turns that its a miracle any film gets made.

However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to.