Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

Silence is the garment of light.