We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
The mind is an untrained child you got to teach what to do.
Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.
I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose.
Entertainment is the greatest socializing force in the world.
Who is the person in my life for whom my presence allowing them to have a true second chance, allowing them to have an authentic relationship, who is the person for whom if I do that, their life can be changed for the better? That's something we can do right now with the people right next to us.
Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing, with the power to change this world, one little boy and girl at a time.
[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it. Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.
I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.