“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...”

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”

“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, c...”

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to thinkThat we are sound, substantial flesh and blood--Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.”

“...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”

“Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.”