To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.