What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

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.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

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

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.