If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Art is the accomplice of love.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

Grace freely given by God.

The only God who can lead you out of trouble when you are pursuing your dreams is the one who gave you that assignment. Neglecting him from your plans is tantamount to commitment of suicide.

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.

Women like this kind of rebel image in men because there's a thrill in it, especially for those who are tired and burdened with their lives.

In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence

Everything that you want to create is already there. Your job is to connect yourself to it.

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.