The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.

Knowing that something is wrong without actively trying to fix it is worse than ignorant neutrality.

I was born to stand, fight and when all is done to give God the glory for the victories.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.

The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.