“You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.”

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.

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.

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.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn’t like competing, I made her finish the season.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.

The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.