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

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.

Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors where he is always confronted with self. Sex does not care about the person, but about the act. The fig leaf which once was put over the secret parts of man and woman in sculpture is now put over the face. The person does not matter.

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

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.