In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.
Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.