You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.

When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation