You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life.

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

God schedules a birthday, not man.

If a country complains that they don’t have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to.

Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.

Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him.

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.