My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.
Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.
Be modest, be humble, be simple. Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.