Joy is the vital air of the soul.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.