“ Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. ”

“ Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. ”

“ A daydream is an evasion. ”

“ The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. ”

“ Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. ”

“ The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ”

“ Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ”

“ We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. ”

“ October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. ”

“ Perhaps I am stronger than I think. ”