"Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground."

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long."

"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal."

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long."

"To love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."

"People demand freedom only when they have no power."

"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."