In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason, ” “progress, ” alcohol, work.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

The secret to happiness is low expectations.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

With most of the people you just communicate you don't have to talk.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

Ive loved this job. It is my intention to stay as the Mayor

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!