God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.

If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home

It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.

All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want.

For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.

Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. It can unite us to sing with one voice. Such is the value of music.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.