We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.