When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

All the eyes of God are looking through all the stars, or looking at the stars through our eyes. There's only the eye of God everywhere, seeing and being in perfection always.

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

My morals are important to me.

Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.