The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.

What we have to be is what we are.

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.