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

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.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness…. he must not forget that he is a person.

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

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state – a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

What is simple in one arena is often profound in another.

Don’t be afraid of new arenas.

Don’t be afraid of new arenas.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.