My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

There’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

We love things we love what they are.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.