There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

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

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.