The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.

Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

I've been a fugitive from reality since forever.

The difficult people who we encounter can be our greatest teachers.

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

I am very little of a traveler.

Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.

Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!

Who we are is the part of us that is infinite, the part of us that never stops.