Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies – at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible. Michael O'Brien Read Quote
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard – the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I’ll always be groping for what I can’t have. George Packer Read Quote
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read Quote
I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart. Bruno Mars Read Quote
I can cope with a smack in the face, or at least I should be able to after the number I have had. This one was just run-of-the-mill for me. Richard Gough Read Quote
Even if I wrote ‘The Kay Cannon Show,’ I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn’t get it. Kay Cannon Read Quote
