Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

Skill + hard work = SuccessSkill + hard work + prayer = Great success

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

When we assist Him in His mission of saving souls, we too will be rescued in the process.

The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

I just want to throw strikes. If I can't throw strikes, I'm worthless.

The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.

I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.