I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.