"Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up."
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit."
"My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."