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.

We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.