To wonder is to begin to understand.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

Don't walk out of here. I can't lose you.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

There might be a lot of physical chemistry within a couple, but without the compatibility of life philosophy and interests then the relationship will likely not be long-lasting.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

Theoretical knowledge can not touch heart without Humility

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.