The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.