“There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.”

“Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't.”

“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”

“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”

“We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all...that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make it worth living and also worth giving...and that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.”

“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”