Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.