I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
The novel is the highest example of subtle inter-relatedness that man has discovered. It is the book of life. In this sense, the Bible is a great confused novel. You may say, it is about God. But it is really about man alive.
The strength of a nation's institutions is not just in their formal rules, but in the informal norms that govern behavior and the degree to which they are internalized by the population.
Success is not about the destination, it's about the journey.