To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends.

We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

We all grow into the beautiful person that we’re supposed to be, some earlier, some later.

Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.