It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness.

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.