“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.”

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I’m one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let’s just say I’m the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

I have to be motivated, and I’m sure time will avail itself.

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.

You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.

I’m speaking to someone I’m trying to get to fall in love with me. I’m trying to speak intimately to one person. That should be clear. I’m not speaking to an audience. I’m not writing for the podium.

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.

It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.

So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na’im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail.

In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.

What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

Poor and most middle-class people believe “If I have a lot of money, I could do what I want and I’d be a success.” Rich people understand, “If I become a successful person, I will be able to do what I need to do to have what I want, including a lot of money.”

Rich people believe “You can have your cake and eat it too.” Middle-class people believe “Cake is too rich, so I’ll only have a little piece.” Poor people don’t believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have “nothing.”

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.