To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten";

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of hims

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the