Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory