I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.

Murder and lying comes easy for white people.

The Chinese five-spice works really well in the quantity that I used. It makes it almost imperceptibly just a little bit sweeter without making it really sweet or really even that Asian flavored.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.