Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.