Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

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

Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.

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

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.

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

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.