I find that at twent it is easy to be a hero, a saint, an extraordinary man. I believe, however, that at ninety it is very difficult to live up to th… - Jean Guitton

Love always envelops us: it is we, with our attitude towards it, who transform it into fire or light.

L'ateismo non è soltanto macchinoso e raro, è anche un fenomeno recente, una bizzarria sostenuta da pochi e da poco tempo nel solo ambiente di certa intelligentia occidentale.

Joan of Arc possesses more genius than talent, more heroism than courage, more intuition than intelligence, more immediacy than endurance and, if we may say so, more glory than grace. That is why she seems more angelic than human, a traveller from another world, parachuted into this one. (p. 7)