“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.”

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.

A curse burns bright on crime

It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.