If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and, let us say, a Catholicism of O'Connor's "Great Hurrah." Now there are types of Catholicism like that but this doesn't - this doesn't do justice to the genuine relation that Catholicism has had to Democratic Society.

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.