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

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.

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

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

I said I love youwhen what I meant to say was"I’m afraid of being alone."I said I need youwhen what I meant to say was"I need to learn how to love myself.

He was home, but he wasn't. He had gotten where he had to go, but he hadn't. He had found out who he was, but he didn't know why it had failed to satify his questions.

Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.

God made the country and man made the town.

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or the Prophet Mohammed.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.