Status Updates From The Return of Lanny Budd (T...

"You know how it is, they say they are for peace and democracy, and it is possible to believe their words until you see their actions. ..In the free world we would rather let a hundred guilty men go free than kill one innocent man; but in Stalin’s realm it is just the other way: he would rather kill a hundred innocent men than have one guilty man survive—.. the way with despotism; it breeds fear and thrives upon it

"This world gets more like a melodrama every day I live in it..We must learn to take it as a show

"little minds, which are spontaneous and impulsive, cannot be made into mature intriguers. They will inevitably let out some secret, and that will be the end of you.

"heart can ache for everybody in the world, but when it comes to action you have to realize that you can’t help everybody, and you have to choose those who best deserve it.

"Friends represent an extension of one’s life, but they extend into sorrow as well as into joy, into failure as well as into success.