The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.