If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.