“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.”

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.

In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life

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.”

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.

You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.

Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

You’re going to have more rejection than acceptance.

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.

Hardships and handicaps can…stimulate our energy to survive them. You’ll find if you study the lives of people who’ve accomplished things, it’s often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.

People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.