He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self importance.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.

Feast of Barnabas the Apostle The disorder of secularism is perhaps nowhere more apparent in our contemporary Church than in the extent to which we have permitted the order of the world to creep into the order of the Church... That it should carry out its mission to the men in the middle classes of capitalist society is doubtless a part of the Church's order; but that the mission should result in the formation of a middle-class church which defends the secular outlook and interests of that class is an evident corruption.

This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, is the fruit of true self-oblation; for a soul totally possessed by God is a soul totally possessed by Charity. By the path of self-offering, the Church and the soul have come up to the frontiers of the Holy. There we are required, not to cast the world from us, but to do our best for all others as well as ourselves.

Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Art is the proper task of life.