You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.