The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.