It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.

The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and be cared for, not just because it is good for us, but because it is the way things are.

Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.

When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.

As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook.

I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.