Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

Hope is passion for what is possible.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.