Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

There are women whose love only ends with death.

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...

The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.

...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!

Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband and wife, who love each other, can see each other in one single face.

What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

When you bluff, someone may call you on it.

I've stolen a lot. Let me think about the best thing I've stolen. Stolen a lot of hearts.

[Barak Obama] just said children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement - meaning deportation - as long as they've not.

I love Hawaii. I really enjoy surfing in Oahu, and Waianae is such a great area. And Maui - I like Maui a lot, too.