"The church has precisely as much truth as it needs to exist."

"Morality, insofar as it condemns for its own sake, and not out of regard for the concerns, considerations, and contrivances of life, is a specific error with which one ought to have no pity – an idios…"

"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."

"I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up…"

"And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."