Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

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.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.