God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.