In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Anger is a prelude to courage.