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

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

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.

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

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

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

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.