The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.