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.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

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