Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.