The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Statistics are the heart of democracy.

If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

Everything has a finsh line. You just have to keep moving forward until you cross it.

If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.

The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.

There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.

He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

After 60, its just patch, patch, patch

It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

I don't remember how we happened to meet each other. I don't remember who got along with whom first. All I can remember is all of us together.always.