"You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people."

"Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God."

"The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving."

"There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be."

"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."

"Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday."

"If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave."

"Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked."

"Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them."

"Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way."

"Evil is whatever distracts."

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

"Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger."

"When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable."

"Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down."

"One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are."

"One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace"

"The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal."

"It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country."

"I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary."

"...he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation at the elaborate futility of his life"

"Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation."

"Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them."

"..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune."