A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

Women! They think it so romantic to break the rules. But what are we if we don't hold to tradition, am I right?" ~Darian

It’s kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.