News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.

Do we still have the right to be more than victims?

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.