Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.