There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.

When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.

Whose silence are you?