The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever breaking every equilibrium, forever searching for a higher one.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.