Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat

One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

We do not judge the people we love

Hell is other people

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal