Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

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

... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.