The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

Necessity is God's veil.

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

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