The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.