“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time ”

“Faith is a passionate intuition”

“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit ”

“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. ”

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions ”

“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things”