The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

Her whole world was in the depth of his eyes.

In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power.

Silence is the best melody.

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

I'm a lightweight better be careful what you say With every word I'm blown away You're in control of my heart

The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Art is seduction, not rape.

Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest