As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.
What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.
It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.
If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.
resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.
It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.
I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.
All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?