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

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.