Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

Distance is the soul of beauty.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.