If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

I dream in fire but work in clay.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Freedom is a spiritual-self liberty.

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.

You should never poison a witch.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.