#catholic-author

"An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear."

"It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense."

"... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!"

"Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas."

"... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return."

"It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do."

"Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it."

"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law."

"Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot."