Humility is attentive patience.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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.