The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.