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.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

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

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.