It is true to say that for me sanctity consists in being myself and for you sanctity consists of being yourself and that, in the last analysis, your sanctity will never be mine and mine will never be yours, except in the communism of charity and grace. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

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

The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear Brothers [and Sisters], we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.