Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence.
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others.
A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.
Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.