Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

Give someone you wronged a chance to express their true feelings and learn about yourself and your shortcomings.

As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!

Two worlds one family

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

I was born and bred to be a great flirt.

You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there's no one to find the Self. There's no Self to find.

There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.