Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.