Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

If you want peace work for justice.

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.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.

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.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

A dimple on the chin a devin within.

Affection like melancholy magnifies trifles but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects that of the other like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

If you want peace, work for justice.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.

I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

I don't keep a journal.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.

I played varsity soccer at Yale and continued playing at Cambridge.

If you think you're too big for small jobs, maybe you're too small for big job.

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life. We'd go and stay for a few weeks with Dad on tour and bring a tutor with us.

Love is sacrifice.

The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.

I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.

Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we've done and how we've behaved form our notion of who we are, what our character is. So if part of that were missing, what does that actually say about you? And what does it say about your sense of responsibility for things if you can't remember them?

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.