For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.