"Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance."

"If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel."

"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it."

"Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith."

"If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also."

"In the quiet sanctuary of self-reflection, the soul finds its rhythm. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

"God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God."