The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

There are women whose love only ends with death.

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...

The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.

...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!

Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband and wife, who love each other, can see each other in one single face.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.

If somebody is deemed more talented within the confines of the school it doesn't mean they're going to have the most successful career.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage -- everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones... . And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

We are the storytelling animal.

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.