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“Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.”
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“I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.”
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“I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.”
Source : "'I Know What I Stand For'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.
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“It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.”
Source : Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”
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“Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed and is entirely repugnant to true beatitude. And on this account we are forced to submit to God this depraved nature of ours which fills our understanding with so many occupations, and causes us to deviate from the true path, in order that he may entirely consume it until nothing remains there but himself; otherwise the soul could never attain stability nor repose, for she was created for no other end.”
Source : Don Cattaneo Marabotto, St. Catherine of Genoa (2015). “The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa”, p.41, TAN Books
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“Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!”
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“The living Lord leads His living church.”
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“He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it.”