Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

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

Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.

When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.

Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.