We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
All great art is a visual form of prayer.
Looking at art is one way of listening to God.
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
Great art changes you.
You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.
It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.
Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.
When you hear that my body has ceased to exist, please do not feel sad. Just look deeply and see that my life and work continue in so many friends, so many young people, in their own ways and through their work. I will continue in everyone and everything I have ever touched. I have nothinng to fear and nothing to regret.
The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.