My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.