I decline to accept the end of man.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.