We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.