It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

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."

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

Hell is other people at breakfast.

In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.

The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.