One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

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.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

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.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

No one is ever lost. No one needs to be saved. Open your inner eyes and see it all existing in harmony and love.

A dalliance with poetry before we dance.

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

Everybody has their weaknesses.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

I mean we cant even rock them shoes if it dont got a comma on the price tag ya know. I mean.. I mean but then again who looks at the price tag ya know?

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.