People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they can't sing.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.
Justice comes before charity.
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is. . . on a world-wide basis.
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
I am made to tremble and I fear!
Writing down your trades is the best exercise in the world.
I know the relationship will be the same, so I'm not worried about it. It's called "The Kellyanne Role. " And so somebody said that recently, so I like that, and I know what that means.
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless. " Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.
In politics, purity is the enemy of victory.