While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts.

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.

True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.

Christendom, as an effect, must be accounted for. It is too large for a mortal cause.

Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

I am not allowed by my profession to diagnose somebody from a distance, but one can observe certain symptoms of sociopathy in George W. Bush.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.

George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?"