The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.
Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.
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.
The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.
Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of India's poorest? We would hear a lot about socialist appropriation and the death of democracy. Why should taking from the rich be called appropriation and taking from the poor be called development?
Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone.
That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.