What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.