Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?