I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.