If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

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

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

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.