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

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

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

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

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.

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.