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.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

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

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.