Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.