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

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

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.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

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.