When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

The family is more sacred than the state.

Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

You can't do passion halfway. Living your passion means you're all in. You trust your heart and trust your gut wherever that takes you.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

My approach never changes from start to start.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works.