 Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. |
| When ambition ends, happiness begins. |
| Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another. |
| We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. |
| Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. |
| If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. |
| Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. |
| Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. |
| A daydream is an evasion. |
| The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. |
| What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. |
| Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. |
| Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. |
| To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. |
| Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. |
| Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. |
| The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. |
| October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. |
| Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. |
| We do not exist for ourselves. |
