Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.