Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

You can't have the family farm without the family.