Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

We are made to know and love God.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

Poets are band leaders who have failed.

All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.

I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do.

Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.

I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.