The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.