To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.