Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility" (The Ten Commandments, 10).

Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

You know I don't care about what I eat. I love food so much, I can't affect the way I eat.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops? If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

Truth is never determined by majority opinion, but by divine revelation.

Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.