A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.