It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.

The term "national idea" is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as to the desired way of life in their country, an idea that holds sway over the population. A unifying concept like that can be useful, but should never be created artificially or imposed top-down by the powers-that-be.

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.