Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.