Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.
The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.
And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.
Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life.