Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.