Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Author: Simone Weil

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Humility is attentive patience.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.