Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.

The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.

What we have to be is what we are.

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.