Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

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.

Always try to fix what is broken so that when the blessings come, you will be able to receive it. This generation does a lot of right things for wrong reasons.

I’m not brave enough to love youThe same wayYou’re not strong enough to take me on.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

I am one of the funniest people on the planet.

As an actor, you are at the mercy of others for what role you can be seen for and then what you will be cast in.

Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.