A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

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

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

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