Quotes

It used to be that the Catholics were the only ones to believe in the Immaculate Conception. Now everyone believes he is the immaculately conceived.

The Rabbis and Priests and Ministers stopped talking about sin. The Jurists picked it up and turned sin into a crime, and finally Psychiatrists converted it into a complex. The result is that no one is a sinner.

[on flattery] Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

I feel it is time I also pay tribute to my four writers - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

A bigoted man is one who refuses to accept a reason for anything; a broadminded man is one who will accept anything for a reason, providing it is not a good reason.

All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not just making an affirmation of love; he is also negating his love for anyone else. In that one act by which he chooses her, he rejects all that is not her. There is no other real way in which to prove we love a thing than by choosing it in preference to something else.