Some truths are seen better through tears.

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

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

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

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.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

You have to be a two people

Turren blinked and then smiled from ear to ear. “What makes a pure soul extra purer?”“I don’t know, ” Sebastian said. “I didn’t eat anything weird today.

What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.