People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then?Juniper: I can't be bothered.

For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

My personality and nothing from my past would have ever predicted that I would be at the center of a controversy.

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

Wayne's done way more for my career than Jay-Z. Wayne is the reason I'm here.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.

Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.