“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

Faith is a gift of God.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.

When you get before great people you don’t talk a lot, you ask questions.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can’t be bought.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

That’s just a part of being an artist: you can’t write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you’d be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you’ve already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish.

We have to learn to be comfortable being uncomfortable: Pull the strip off and activate your greatness!