It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.