The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.

No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost.

The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.

Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.

When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround us?

However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.

Jews are a perverse people, accursed by God forever.

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

To be strong, love. To win trust, believe.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

Where would we be without inhibitions? Theyre quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.