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.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

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

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.