The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

It's that knowledge that sustains you through tough times, the certainty that you will always be less without each other than you are together.

Renew your mind with the knowledge on scriptures daily. You will be better equipped to handle any situation.

He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it.

Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.