Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U. S. congressmen.
People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.
[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
I have a great office.