When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

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

To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.