The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

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

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth