Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.