Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!

You are perfect, not tomorrow, not in the future, but today.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.

I don't know if I have any regrets, I have had a pretty successful life. I have learned good, bad, and ugly.

I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.