Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.

It has served us well, this myth of Christ.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state that makes you try to convince your heart of something your mind knows is a lie!

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different.

If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.

I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.

I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.

Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

The message sent is not always the message received.

I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.