I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

You are the perfect creation of God. Don't allow you to be down. God is experiencing through you.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.

Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

this is the upside of already being eternally damned

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.