Freedom is a system based on courage.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

Christmas is the spark within our hearts that ignites as each day grows closer and burns brightly with the promise of compassion, love and generosity of spirit.

[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way.

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.

The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.