Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.