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.

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.