A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!

When it's time for the flowers to bloom, they'll bloom.When it's time for spring to come, it'll come.

To take offense is to give offense.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.