The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.