There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.

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

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.