A man had better study what a human being is, because he's marrying one - assuming that merely being one has not been sufficient stimulus to that study.

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

The family is more sacred than the state.

Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

I often played the nerdy friend or the goofy sidekick or the sort of naïve movie character in some ways.

The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change