If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.

To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.