Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.