Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.

Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice." Because "liberty" was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning "freedom from justice"; then when religion and decent government attempted to bring them back to justice, organized into "freedom groups" they protested that their constitutional and natural rights were being violated.