The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.