It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.