El diablo no es el príncipe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espíritu, la fe sin sonrisa, la verdad jamás tocada por la duda.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Then why do you want to know?""Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.

Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

I kind of know youre only as good as your last result.

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

Many small make a great.

Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.

As a person of color, I was just really tired of the fact that I wasn't seeing my story in the culture.

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.