Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

Stay off the bandwagon. More likely than not, your own way of getting there makes for a better journey.

The coward despairs.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love.

Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.