It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

A traditionalist’s values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.

As I read the Bible, I seem to find holiness to be [Christ’s] supreme attribute.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

It is the Mass that matters.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.

I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.