Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

Love means having something to betray.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.