The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

The peoples of the earth are one family.

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.