I think I've got a lot of dark lines in this record [Wild Things] that I've hidden quite nicely among the nice things.
Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.
Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.
It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . and I am one of them.
May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.
Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen again with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do the things that are Christ's.
This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.
Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39. 9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.
I truly believe that if you think something's stupid, that might mean it's actually good.