You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

What do I love when I love my God?

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

You shouldn't ask why do you wear a hat? What you really should be asking is why are you not? How can a look be complete without a hat?

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.