These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.