People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.

For me to be a saint means to be myself.

Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost