"The greatest good is not to be born, the second is to die soon."

"It is not the path I have chosen, but the path I am choosing."

"All existence makes me anxious, from the smallest fly to the mysteries of the Incarnation; the whole thing is inexplicable, I most of all; to me all existence is infected, I most of all. My distress i…"

"I am so constituted that I am always trying to get rid of myself, so that I can be myself."

"The knight of faith is the only happy man, the heir of the finite, whereas the knight of infinite resignation is a stranger and a sojourner."