It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do not know how to lie.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

The book is the most technologically advanced invention in the history of humankind.

If we praise God when things are tough, we show our trust in Him.

I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?

There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.

While the WTO negotiations will continue, there are other trade negotiations of a bilateral nature, which among other things, should help to open up these markets for South African products.

It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.