I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then...

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so...

Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little fires on a plain, and the frailty about them, if it did not...

I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?

Children are the greatest blessing from God.

Deux choses donnent du sens à la vie : les livres et l’amour.

It has been argued that man is not an animal, but I tell you, the animal in man is what makes man an animal.

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose – electronic (even though that wasn’t for her) or printed, or audio – is...

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

The atmosphere was electrified by the orgasm with which the strong and secure are overcome when confronted with the visible frailty of someone worse off than themselves.

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.