There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

A kind thought, word, or action creates infinite ripples of caring, consideration, and peace.

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida, swamped by incongruity and paradox, and I have to start all over again.

These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.

The less we know the more we suspect.

I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.