The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

We accept what we think is best for us.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

I know mine own!"--Walter Emmett Velvet, the Antichrist

A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what they can, and whatever remains is left to rot.

Your way, your rules. Their way - their rules.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.

All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

I'm arrogant, but not so much that I'd irresponsibly save someone just to brag about it