Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

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.

About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

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.