Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.