"if we are going to be on mission in this world, a world that so desperately needs to hear the Gospel, it's not what we take with us on mission. It's who we take. And here is the good news—it's our job to make a decision for Christ, the strength and the power to become missionaries will come from him."

"In dioceses of secular countries with a network of Catholic schools and Colleges, the primary community of faith has become the school. There the majority of the baptized encounter for the first time, in any systematic way, the person of Jesus Christ, prayer, liturgy and the Church's sacramental life. Teachers rather than parents have become in many instances the first formators in faith of our young. Catholic schools are not products but agents of the Church's mission."

"He was an arrogant, pigheaded doctrinaire fool."