The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.