Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.