Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.