Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

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.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.