Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.

All love craves unity.

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.