Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

Jesus, I am sorry.

Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.

Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.

The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives.

The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.

I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.

Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.

Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.

Volunteer. Find ways to be useful. Be kind.

Everything in this world is designed to oppose your forward movement!

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

I live by the rule that you should follow your dreams…no matter what you do, you should follow your dreams