When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.