I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

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.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.