As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

The test for honest Americans or honest liberals is, are they going to defend a president they disagree with when he's being victimized.

Are you in danger of becoming a good man?

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Faith idles when character shrivels.

When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.

Super villains and bad guys win in real life.

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of...

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn'...

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of...

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

God didn't create monsters. Monsters created themselves.

The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized...

Mark the perfect man and behold the upright.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good and how he treats people who can't fight back.