To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.