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.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future

There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour) than in all the utterances of man since the world began.

It is not right to glory in the slain

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

I must have my share in the conversation.

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

I'm going to build a reactor, that's for sure.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.