May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed . . . I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.

There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.