To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.