Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

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

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.