Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

Joy is being fully aware of reality.

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.