Outline Quotes

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.