Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

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

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

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

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.