Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

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

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!