Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.

What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself. What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually.

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.

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.