Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

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

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.