I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.