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

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.