Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.