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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
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"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."

"The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk."

"Any time you put yourself on the line, you risk (and maybe fear) failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid-none of which are comfortable."
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"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you."


"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good."


"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."


"When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other? What will you answer? "We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other? or "This is a community? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions."


"But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."


"Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself."


"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."
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