The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.