The world is God's language to us.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

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

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.