For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

We're reclaiming America and restoring honor. I believe we do that with faith, with hope, with charity, and honoring our brothers and our sisters as we honor each other.

Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint.

I guess if there is a big spiritual experience in my life, it is me becoming a mother.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?