It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.