I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.
What a treasure is hidden in two small words: 'thank you!'
The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ. . . Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians. . . Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.
More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.