A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.