I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

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

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

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.

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.

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

All known existence points beyond itself.