"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone."

"It is a radiant truth that all philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing."

"It is a essential truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow."

"It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it."

"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense."

"As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be."