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

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

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

If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

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

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.