The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Some truths are seen better through tears.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

The thing I regret the most is that I cannot help everyone who really needs it.

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers powers that would astonish him that he never dreamed of possessing forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

I define ministry as what you've went through. I believe it takes somebody to go through something to be able to minister to something.

If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.

Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.