Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.

If you want peace, work for justice.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

There is no chance for old fools.

So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted.

I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.

The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

I wanted to play football. It was what I did best at school and I'm pretty sporty, so that was the idea. Music was always a hobby, innit. I was more ahead with football.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.