"The darkness is at its deepest. Just..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Fame is a heavy burden.”

“We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.”

“When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.”

“Reading gave me hope.”

“In the midst of darkness, light persists.”

“Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

“Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.”

“Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.”