Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

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.

Life is supposed to be exciting, so journey through each day collecting moments and celebrating the right ones.

Peace is only a thought away.

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.

The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.