God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Some truths are seen better through tears.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

I like to allow accidents to happen, not to force them, and yet not let myself feel miserable if they do happen, because they are so often the best things.

When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.

I still have people saying to me, 'Oh, you're still together?' They don't realize Leppard's been around this whole time, because people just don't get to hear us.