We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

Great art changes you.

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

Prejudice is always dangerous.

The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark.

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]