I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Ask ten goths what 'goth' means, and you'll get eleven different answers.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Break a leg!

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

Confidence is courage at ease.

We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point of reality—to make something real.

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of his fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil. It is the Heavenly Father's will thus to exercise them so as to put his own children to a definite test. Beginning with Christ, his first-born, he follows this plan with all his children.

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most concerned of the first time.

The fairy stitching gleams On the sides and in the seams, And it shows That Pixies were the wags Who tipped these funny tags And these toes.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

A person who can speak many languages is not necessarily more valuable than a person who can listen in one.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. -Martin Luther King.