We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

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

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.