“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“If you want peace work for justice.”