“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.

Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.

Passion makes every detail important.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

A bad experience can bring out the good in us.

Time is good or bad. Keep patience, everyone’s time is spent.

You might be afraid of being alone now. But soon you will be afraid of having the wrong people as company.

Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.

Celebrate your strength. You’ve come so far in your practice and have survived 100% of your bad days⁠.

Positivity is great, but remember that we’re all human and it’s okay to have off days.⁠

Don’t let the bad of others kill the good in you.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.