Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

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

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.