For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.