"Every time that a man has, from a pure motive, renounced a possession, a pleasure, a satisfaction, a compensation, he has increased the quantity of being in the universe."

"Oppression that is not total creates the possibility of revolt."

"The great error of the French Revolution was to believe that one could create a good society by decree."

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

"The most beautiful thing in the world is the cross."