He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.