If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.