Quotes from book

No Man Is an Island

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

“A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”

“The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.”

“Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.”

“For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.”

“The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.”