The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

I am I plus my circumstances.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

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