Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.

Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.

Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding

Reading is a beautiful paradise.

Nothing can cure the mind but the love, nothing can possess the love but the mind.

When you Dream, let your Dream be compelling enough to pull you towards its realization

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.

Literature is achieved anxiety.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.