Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.