Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

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

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

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

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

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.

All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires converting luxuries into necessities but it only intensifies mans inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Love is a mutual self giving which ends in self recovery.

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

In this sublime hour therefore He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say Good morning God and the other is to say Good God morning

One function of the angels is illumination and the other function is that of being a guardian.

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.