St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Fairy tales are more than true.