In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

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

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.