The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

Don’t fight with your enemy’s brains, fight with his heart

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.

Joy is the life of man's life.

Was that suit made to order? Where were you at the time?

Few questions make long friends in the hills.

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.