What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.