Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.