And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.