This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.

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

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

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

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

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.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.