a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.