Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Music is the emotions that words can not express.

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.

I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.

The present moment is all you ever have.

At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.