I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

I regret the immaturity with which I approached the problems and tasks of the ministry but I do not regret the years devoted to the parish.

To extract beauty from one’s own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art

The anti-gun urban liberals are really not that much more evolved. They have an equal and opposite fanaticism about guns—that to own one is to be a latent murderer. But worse than that, it’s to be tasteless. There is a raft of assumptions that go with gun ownership.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Love gives us the strength to perform impossible tasks.