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

A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

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

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.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

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