I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

All my life I have fought corruption.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

All I do is go to the movies.

It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.