Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.
The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.
[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.