Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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

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

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.

Time wasted can never be compensated

Great women aren't born great, they become great.

Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat?Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

It's not in doubt that tobacco is far more lethal than hard drugs.

When you're a good giver you're a good getter.

The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.