I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
“Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'”
“One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.”