A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.