Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.