for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

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

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.