Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

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