“There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads co...” — Washington Irving Quote

“There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.”

“I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!”

“There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”

“I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.”

“Art has the power to bring people together - in communion.”

“I use both the 'I' and the 'we.' For on many, many matters, I am not simply expressing ideas that have happened to occur to Joseph Ratzinger, but I am speaking out of the common life of the Church's communion.”