As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed

Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.