You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot co….

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a ric….

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?.

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me..

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, b….

Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importa….

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is….

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Kni….

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands..

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony..

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis..

To me life is simply an invitation to live..

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction..

Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush w….

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many thing….

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's th….

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and….

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the l….

The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, loo….

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves..

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making eff….