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

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.