We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

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

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.

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.