The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.