“Why do you not practise what you preach.”

To read without writing is to sleep.

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

Haste is of the Devil.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it’s total fun for him and it was for me.

It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.

Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.