In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

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

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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.

When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left

He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

I think it was hiding a princess.

There is room for us all to be how we actually are.