Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.