“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.”

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.

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.

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.

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.

The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity.

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, ‘Speak truth to power’. Power knows the truth. It’s speaking the truth to yourself that’s the challenge.

The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth.

We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.