Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.