"We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."

"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."

"In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention."

"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."

"The only limit to human potential is authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."

"No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it."

"I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it."

"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture."