Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.

If you want peace, work for justice.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free While God is marching on.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.

An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.