“If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.”

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.

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?

St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.

Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.

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.

Life is too short to play bad music

Americans like a winner. If you lose, you’re nothing. I’m going to win, though. It’s good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We’ve met five times. He’s won three times and we’ve drawn twice. But I’m a stronger player and a long match favors me.

Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

Then, they had insisted that only empirical criteria matter and that they actually did not believe in the reality of sub-atomic entities.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.

The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.