I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.