The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!

There is no love which does not become help.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.