Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.