There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.