Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.

By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.