If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.

Humility is the surest sign of strength.

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.

The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.

A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass