All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

Never judge anyone but to love and understand everyone.

For people with patience, time with a dog is a little slice of heaven.

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

I'm at a weird spot because I look so young and I feel young, but I'm not young.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.

What the commission that myself and Leon Panetta is trying to do is analyze this in two respects. First of all, what's the right military response and security response?