It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

God is not only true, but Truth itself.

Catholics are born for combat.

The equal toleration of all religions...is the same as atheism.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have overcome the world'

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

Through love, you see the whole world, not just people, differently.

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.

We are, however, producing a lot of natural gas, which serves as a bridge to more renewable fuels. And I think that's an important transition.

We are a species addicted to a stories.

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.