Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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

The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial manifestations of a deeper struggle which is moral and spiritual and involves above all else whether man shall exist for the state, or the state for man, and whether freedom is of the spirit or a concession of a materialized society.

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

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.