One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened

Consistency is the belt that fastens excellence in position. If you don't do it repeatedly, you'll not excel in it.

The best teacher teaches not only the information but how to use that information to improve life.

Wine is not a magic serum of truth. It just silences that smart little voice in your head which advises against saying some dumb shit.

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly

Look the world straight in the eye.

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?