I need to be on drugs to connect with nature.
Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.
I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.
It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.