...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.