What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

Humility is attentive patience.

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

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.