"Life is a banquet, and most poor bastards are starving to death."

"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."

"It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot."

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"

"Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of."

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry."

"Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of."

"The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself."