Bernard Quotes
Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.
That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?
A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.
Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.
I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.
There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.
For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?
(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
