“Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.”

“To give up our imaginary position as the center, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our soul, that means to awaken to what is real and eternal, to see the true light and hear the true silence.”

“Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.”

“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.”

“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”

“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”

“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”