What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.

They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.

There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth.

Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.