True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

History is us squinting into the past, mistaking millions of tiny vibrations in all directions for unified, unidirectional movements by entire civilizations.

Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?

I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big.

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe.