If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we
cannot federalize virtue.

If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we
cannot federalize virtue.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out read more

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever
without eror, and nothing we achieve without some read more

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever
without eror, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and
fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline
ourselves.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline
ourselves.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

There is always a way-if you're committed.

There is always a way-if you're committed.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.