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

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

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.

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

Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.