If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.

If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child.

29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.

I swear to God, if GreatReads doesn't stop sending me these notification emails...how many times do I have to turn them off?

Are you asking because you really want an answer?

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

We ought to feel in our hearts that God is our Father, and that while we make mistakes and are weak yet if we live as nearly perfect as we can all will be well with us.

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.