“There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.”

Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.

Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips called him “the great slaver from Illinois.”

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.

May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar

The only way to peace is forgiveness.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.

Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.

I’m not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn’t place myself on that footing. I wouldn’t even enter that arena.

[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.

In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires – rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn’t stay that long because I went into show business.

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

It’s incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage