I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better