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

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

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.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.