Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.

Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!