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

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

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

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.