one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.