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.

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

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