How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.