There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.

To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.

Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

Part of growing up is narrowing your life choices to a manageable size.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.