The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.