During war we imprison the rights of man.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.