There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.