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

Grace flows through wounds.

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

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.

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.

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

A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.