Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

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.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.