The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

The most perfect magic for a child is the touch of a loving hand!

One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

You've grown up, girl. You've grown up real nice, Welcome home

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.