Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.