The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.