The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.
Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.
I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.
Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?
There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.