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

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

There has been a religious revival because - let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a religion of their own in my youth. These were liberals who believed in the idea of progress or they were Marxists. Both of these secular religions have broken down.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.