It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.