Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.