The first duty of love is to listen

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable

Boredom is rage spread thin

Anger is a noble infirmity the generous failing of the just the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.