Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.