I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

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.

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

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.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat.

She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Unlikely things are often true . . .

Psychics can never be 100 percent. I think that would be scary to be 100 percent.

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.