There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Adventure is the champagne of life.