The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

Ben knew that no matter how far you run, you're still yourself when you get there.

You kissed him, right? The only question is, do you want to kiss him again?

If you are in doubt about what's balanced, look to the natural world. Animals know the right paths.

Gradually, I am realizing who I'm.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

What you do not eliminate - you accumulate.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.