Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.