Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.