"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into ..." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.