I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out.
Rediscover the joy of believing.
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.
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world
The labor of rising from the ground will be great,. . . but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.
Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.
Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.