“He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”

“Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.”

“Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.”

“The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.”

“The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.”

“The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to us. Rather, in the moment of the cross, it becomes clear that evil is utterly subverted for good.... If God can take the greatest of evils and turn them for the greatest of goods, then how much more can he take the lesser evils which litter human history, from individual tragedies to international disasters, and turn them to his good purpose as well.”