With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.

Holidays - Have no pity.

Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.

Every day can't be the best day Do what you can right now, don't hesitate That's why we try to make love and get paid Take the bad with the good, now let's play

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.