After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you. This praise of work should be inscribed on all tools, on the forehead and the faces that sweat from toiling.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.