"The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it."

“I like everything that has to do with ghosts. If I see it, I'm all over it. We all have our thing.”

“The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.”

Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That Old Birds are not to be Caught with Chaff", 1846.

“I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?”

“I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.”

“The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.”

“Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors”

“Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.”

Source : Joseph Bernardin, Alphonse P. Spilly (2000). “Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin: Homilies and teaching documents”, p.99, Liturgical Press