I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

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

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.