There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.