The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.
No one is ever holy without suffering.
The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G. K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
We are American at puberty. We die French.
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.
Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.