Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

With enough libraries, all content is free.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.