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.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?