No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.
If one can't be happy, one must be amused.
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.