I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

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

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

We are not certain, we are never certain.