It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
They can conquer who believe they can.