The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.