The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

Distance is the soul of beauty.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.