Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

It is better to forget about yourself altogether.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.