To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.