Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.