Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.