If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

Wood's not natural mulch for a woodland garden. Do you see forest trees shatter into a zillion pieces and fall? No. They fall, then decompose, then spread.

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

Couldn't afford a car so he named his daughter Alexis