Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.