I am a fox", the fox said.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.