Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree