If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.

Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.

But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

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