all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.

For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.