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

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.

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.

And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' – a leader says, 'Let's go!

Her heart was telling her to trust him, but it wouldn’t be the first time that that foolish muscle, there in the middle of her chest, had betrayed her.

Today is a fantasy for tomorrow has gone and yesterday is here!

When I look at where I’ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.