Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.

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.

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

The power of prayer is priceless. Great things can be accomplished by prayer.

When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.

You can find the intangibles of being a quarterback in almost every profession in the world. There's nothing like it.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.