“The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.”
“We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.”
“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
“From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.”
“The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.”
“Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation”