Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.

To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.

The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven

To live without risk is to risk not living.

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.

There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.

It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

Pregnancy is a natural event, but you lessen the chances conception can occur with an unnatural diet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Imbalance or abnormity is never so dangerous as when it is widely perceived or accepted as being normal. The worst thing you can do is not to try.

When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.