Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.