Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

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

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.

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.

Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others each batch has its own characteristics and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.

Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

Where one door shuts another opens.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.