You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.