Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.