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

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

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

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.