All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

He turned the music up loud. So what if it would deafen him? It made him happy. Like it had so many times before.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

Evil knows its time to end is soon at hand, hence why it is more than determined to succeed.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ.

Players aren't quite as intimidated by my name.

My mother-in-law buys her coats in a carper shop. She wears a 9x12.