For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Never abandon your dreams. You may regret it for the rest of your life.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.

My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.

I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.