What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with their brains, and this includes business men as well as artists and writers, will look on it as something soothing, a kind of cerebral sedative as relaxing in its way as a comfortable armchair.

I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted.

The training is nothing! The will is everything! The will to act.

We are inviting you to invest yourself through the resources that God has given you - your energy, your prayers and your money - in this work to which God has called us.

There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.

Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.

I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening.