Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of read more

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.

Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.

Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a read more

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.