Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.

But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

In life, I always thought that an Atheist values life much more than any follower of any religion. I believe in that now more than ever. Hell has strengthened that opinion.

You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore.

When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

So little time and so little to do.

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.