Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Some truths are seen better through tears.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.

...Life is nothing but trading smells.

Like everyone else, I want to sleep with Leonardo DiCaprio.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

I truly believe that if you think something's stupid, that might mean it's actually good.