One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risks of living with both arms. One has to embrace life.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.