Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

How good life is when one does something good and just!

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Your inner critic is simply a part of you that needs more self-love.

Example has more followers than reason.

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

You talk as long as you are listened to.

The amount of grace I would expect from God should be equal to the amount of grace I can gather or earn. I get out what I put in.

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

Fear no more, says the heart.