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.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

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

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

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

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