The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you.

I can deal with everything. I got the answer for anything.

Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.