“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Joy is being fully aware of reality.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.