We belong far less to where we’ve come from than where we want to go.

Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Era l'orgoglio che infiamma sempre la nostra materia, quando lo spirito le ha dato una sconfitta.

The latter class [peasants] is always unaffected by the course of historic events. Like cats who are attached to a house and not to the people who dwell in it, the poorer type of peasant belongs less to the nation than to the soil. Therefore, however numerous they are, they never constitute a danger for a conqueror.