Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.