Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

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.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.