When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.