“[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.”

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.

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.

You fall off the horse and you get back on.

Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world

My dad’s like, If your mom and I are having sex and we videotape it and she falls out of bed funny, can I win ten-thousand dollars?

Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.

When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don’t have a complete grasp or perfect vision.

I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

I guess I’m the perfect young lead actress. I’m not Chloe Sevigny – I’m not really a character actress. Some actors have “character” faces.

Because were human beings, were not always going to be perfect.

I have learned that you’re not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it’s just the fool that’s looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior and inferior to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity.