Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

It has served us well, this myth of Christ.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.

The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.

There are two ways to travel, first class or with children.

I'm just a Ragetty Anne in a Barbie Doll World