Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

I never discuss anything else except politics and religion. There is nothing else to discuss.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

Man is a free knight that might betray his Lord.

In Catholicism, the Pint, the Pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

The last lingering shadow of the Jesuit, gliding behind curtains and concealing himself in cupboards, faded from my young life about the time when I first caught a distant glimpse of the late Father Bernard Vaughan. He was the only Jesuit I ever knew in those days; and as you could generally hear him half a mile away, he seemed to be ill-selected for the duties of a curtain-glider.

Without the family, we are helpless before the State.