The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

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.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

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.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.