A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

I am. I think. I will.