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

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Distance is the soul of beauty.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.