1. “A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”
2. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.”
3. “Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.”
4. “Perhaps I am stronger than I think.”
5. “The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”
6. “When ambition ends, happiness begins.”
7. “Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”
8. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
9. “A day dream is an evasion.”
10. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
11. “If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
12. “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
13. “The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to me.”
14. “Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.”
15. “Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.”
16. “Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us”
17. “Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.”
18. “The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.”
19. “The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offers great evils masking as the greatest goods.”
20. “The least of learning is done in the classrooms.”
