Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

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.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.