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

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

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

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.

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

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

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.