All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Being aware of who you are, you will ensure that you do not waste your time spending energy on unnecessary things

Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes.

With languages, you are at home anywhere

there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.