Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.

Father! Can I box him? Please!

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.