One came out of the church with a kind of comfortable and satisfied feeling that something had been done that needed to be done, and that was all I knew about it.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous comment, since a religious man respects the power of God's creation to bear witness for itself.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books.

My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.

In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

I'm not an actor who can constantly pick and choose, I try to get the best of what's there.

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

But for me, to get the tattoo was part of moving into adulthood. Making a choice that is permanent and that I'll have to stick with.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

War's balance will prevail.

I'm not particularly prolific.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.