We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.