“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.