In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

You've maddened me for you...have changed everything. So, I'm going to f*ck you long and hard, beauty, because if I'm to be enslaved by you-I want to be your master as well.

To feel the pure joy of life, donate yourself for the betterment of others.

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.

We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.

To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.