Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.