When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more the State...

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime,...

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. (G.K. Chesterton)

I look to all of you, brothers and sisters of every state of life, to you, Christian families, to you, the sick and elderly,...

By your work you show what you love and what you know. (Saint Bruno of Cologne, +1101)

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that...

Had I many thousands of lives I would offer them all for him. Never shall I apostatise. You may kill me if that is...

I bind myself in this way so that for the rest of my life I will have neither permission nor freedom to refuse opportunities...

Humility, simplicity, charity...but above all charity (Blessed Emilie Tavernier's dying words)

Hope, pray...and don't worry. God is merciful and will hear your prayer (Saint Pio of Pietelcina, +1968)