With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

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.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

If I could be who you wanted, all the time

My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle

If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it.