Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?

Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.