The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.