Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.