The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

At the rate things are going here, all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or …

Liebe, Arbeit und Wissen sind die Quellen unseres Lebens. Sie sollen es auch regieren.

And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

Can any of us fix anything? No. None of us can do that. We're specialized. Each one of us has his own line, his own work. I understand my work, you understand …