If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.