A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

Reading is better than life. Without reading, you’re stuck with life.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball he can't hit that far.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.

One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.