We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.