Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.