Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.

The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.

The abuse of a good does not diminish the good of a good

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.