The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Some truths are seen better through tears.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.

it's a reminder of one of the greatest lessons of all: live as if you'll live forever, but live each day as if it were your last.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.

The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.