An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

I not only have a body; I am this body.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.