. . . the war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
The sign of the cross is the most terrible weapon against the devil. Thus the Church wishes not only that we have it continually in front of our minds to recall to us just what our souls are worth and what they cost Jesus Christ, but also that we should make it at every juncture ourselves: when we go to bed, when we awaken during the night, when we get up, when we begin any action, and, above all, when we are tempted.
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
I'm beginning to wonder about my broker. Yesterday I told him to buy a hundred shares of A. T. &T. He said, 'Would you spell that?'
I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum.
I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have a history. . . . I'm looking for these people inside me, wherever they may be; that is my form of research.