Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.