False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.

Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

Which road, which road did you takeThat brought you here at last?No road, no road did I take.I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

I will not go back. I may stumble, but I will not fall.

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

Life is a juggling act with your own emotions. The trick is to always keep something in your hand and something in the air.

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.