"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable"

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"