Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .