Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.