Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

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.