Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.