Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.