The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.

Renewal of mind begins with mediation on the word of God.

Know your limit and circle of influence

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness.

The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person's sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.

Death is the only mystery we all solve.