To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Saintliness is also a temptation.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.