"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

Never disagree with anyone

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.