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

So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously… He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody

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

I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.

I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization… No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.

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

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.

Other [artists’] music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.

I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.

What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!

I don’t really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can’t have – at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.