Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

religion is for man and not man for religion

Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.

The standard clauses of the American dream only included two weeks of vacation a year.

Jay replied to the bird, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, my little bird. I'm sorry for leaving you alone. I'm sorry for hiding you away. Only now do I realize how much I've missed you.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.