My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another.

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

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.