If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.