“God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.”

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.

Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.

Passion makes every detail important.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain’t satisfied until he rules everything.

I wanna open every know of who “I should be” so I can elongate the rope, fly up higher and discover who I “could” be.

Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.

How much is enough if I always want more?

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Caring too much about what people think of you is useless. Most people don’t even know what they think of themselves.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.