We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.