What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.