You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.